[CW] use of AR

[Roy]

All,

I no longer have my ARRL Operating Manual since we moved to Iowa, but I 
remember that the prosign AR was listed under the category of  "End Codes." 
Now what is this new fad of using AR AHEAD of the call signs, as a 
transmission is about to be ended? Then, AFTER the same call signs, K or BK 
( or horror of horrors, KN) is being used. Never in my 54 years of hamming 
have I observed this until recently. It seems that sending AR ahead of call 
signs is redundant in high order -- isn't it obvious enough that when you 
begin sending call signs, that is going to be the end of your transmission? 
>From whence did this new habit come? It's spreading like wild fire. Just 
about the same way that the illogical practice of using KN during general 
rag chews also spread. Are the blind once again leading the blind?

73,   Roy    AR  DE K6XK   KN